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An Ontario Liberal candidate posted on his Facebook site that women’s brains are better at learning languages, while men’s brains are better suited to solving problems.

Since his party is led by Ontario’s first woman premier, Kathleen Wynne, Nepean-Carleton Liberal candidate Jack Uppal quickly needed to put those problem-solving skills to work.

“I received and re-shared a Facebook posting that, if taken literally, is without question offensive to both women and men. It was certainly not my intent that the post be taken literally or to offend anyone,” Uppal said in a statement Saturday. “I apologize unreservedly.”

For instance, women are good at multitasking, learning languages and lying to a person’s face, it says.

Men, on the other hand, struggle to watch TV and talk on the phone at the same time.

The male sex is better at solving problems, reading maps, driving and speaking directly, it says.

“If a woman has a lot of problems, her brain can not classify the problems. She wants someone to hear that. After telling everything to a person she goes happily to bed. She does not worry about the problems being solved or not,” the posting says.

“Mr. Uppal’s statements have no place in Nepean-Carleton, in politics or in our society,” Scott said in a statement. “He seeks to diminish the contributions women have made in communities across our province.

“Kathleen Wynne needs to explain how she could support a candidate who clearly believes that women have no place at the table,” Scott said.

This is the first Ontario election campaign where two of the three top contenders are female, Wynne and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.